Word: overruns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...June. During a meeting with the Gorbachev-Yeltsin team last month, Ryzhkov reportedly protested that the group's decentralization schemes would "ruin and bury the Soviet Union." Deputy Prime Minister Leonid Abalkin, the government's chief economic guru, has also charged that "everything is being done to malign and overrun this last stronghold" -- the central government. But the leaders of the Russian republic take a different view. As Yeltsin bluntly put it: "I consider the resignation of the Ryzhkov government a condition for the successful implementation of economic reforms." And he is not alone. Members of a radical parliamentary bloc...
...before Columbus landed, or so most believe. In fact, the National Park Service is coping with a growing problem that is partly nature's doing but largely the result of civilization's subtle intrusions. Far from being islands of primeval beauty, parks from Hawaii to North Carolina are being overrun with nonnative plants and animals, virtually all of them introduced, inadvertently or on purpose, by man. These "exotic threats" have become, officials say, the most serious danger facing the 323,750 sq. km (125,000 sq. mi.) national park system...
...threatens the peace of the Middle East was on the ropes himself just a few years ago. Saddam Hussein's forces were on the verge of being overrun by Iran's fanatical Revolutionary Guards, and in spite of billions of dollars in aid to Iraq from other Arab states, his weaponry was insufficient, his coffers were empty and his credit rating was abysmal. Despite an informal embargo, the world's armsmakers were willing to sell Iraq practically anything -- for a price. Eventually Saddam found benefactors in the West: nations more fearful of an Iranian victory than of him. France supplied...
Stranded in the middle are the majority of Americans. They wonder at the effluence of raw language and worry about its impact on old-fashioned notions of civilized discourse. Is there room for subtlety and gentility in a culture overrun by expressions of gross intolerance? And what impact will this culture have on the first generation to grow up within it? Does this stuff have artistic merit? Is it tonic or toxic? Can we dance to it or comfortably laugh at it? Should we march against it or just sit back and enjoy...
Students complain that the ART has overrun the Loeb. Second-floor hallways are lined with one ART office after another, while the HRDC office has been reduced to a relatively small room shared with one of the ART's costume managers, Meserve says...